Gnaeus Pompeius (Rufus) (died AD 14) was suffect consul in 31 BC, during the transitional period when

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, the future Augustus, was consolidating his powers as ''

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''. A member of the

plebeian In ancient Rome, the plebeians (also called plebs) were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words " commoners". Both classes were hereditary. Etymology The precise origins of ...

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'', he may have been one of the Pompeii Rufi, the son of Quintus Pompeius Rufus, and therefore the great-grandson of the

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Sulla Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (; 138–78 BC), commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He won the first large-scale civil war in Roman history and became the first man of the Republic to seize power through force. Sulla had ...

. A

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, Gnaeus Pompeius was appointed suffect consul to replace

Marcus Titius Marcus Titius was a Roman politician ( suffect consul in 31 BC) and commander at the end of the Roman Republic. Descent and proscription Marcus Titius was the son of a Lucius Titius and nephew of Lucius Munatius Plancus. The offices which Lucius ...

, and he held the office from October 1 through to December 31, 31 BC. Gnaeus Pompeius was also one of the ''

Quindecimviri sacris faciundis In ancient Rome, the were the fifteen () members of a college (''collegium'') with priestly duties. They guarded the Sibylline Books, scriptures which they consulted and interpreted at the request of the Senate. This ''collegium'' also oversaw t ...

'', a priestly college, to which he belonged until his death in AD 14.Rogers, Robert Samuel, ''Studies in the reign of Tiberius: some imperial virtues of Tiberius and Drusus Julius Caesar'' (1943), pg. 102

Sources

* Broughton, T. Robert S., ''The Magistrates of the Roman Republic'', Vol II (1951) * Broughton, T. Robert S., ''The Magistrates of the Roman Republic'', Vol III (1986) * Syme, Ronald, ''The Roman Revolution'' (1939)

References

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